This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.